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We mustn't hesitate to cut corruption at its roots.

Corruption is something you face all the time. Avoid it.

Corruption has reached an unacceptable level. It devours resources that could be devoted to the citizens. It impedes the proper carrying out of market rules and penalizes the honest and capable.

Until someone is prepared to lay out the systemic problem, we will simply go through cycles of finding corruption, finding a scapegoat, eliminating the scapegoat, and relaxing until we find the next scandal.

I believe that transparency is the solution to our problem on corruption.

Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves.

There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.

I'm very interested in how corruption works - and it's not necessarily the way one might expect.

As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.